If thats how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that whats left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning). – Barbara Ehrenreich
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America. – Barbara Ehrenreich
So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. – Barbara Ehrenreich
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadnt developed space travel were mere prehistory — horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene — and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since. – Barbara Ehrenreich